Trump withdraws United States from 66 global organisations, treaties

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Other prominent bodies named in the memo include the UN Population Fund, UN Women, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
54% : As in his first term, Trump has also withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement and from UNESCO -- the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation -- which Washington had rejoined under Biden.
52% : A total of 66 global organisations and treaties -- roughly half affiliated with the United Nations -- were listed in a White House memorandum as 'contrary to the interests of the United States.' Most notable among them is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the parent treaty underpinning all major international climate agreements.
39% : Trump has likewise pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation and sharply reduced foreign aid, slashing funding for numerous UN agencies and forcing them to scale back operations on the ground, including the High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Programme.
35% : 'We are looking at legal options to pursue that line of argument.' 'The US withdrawal from the UN climate framework is a heavy blow to global climate action, fracturing hard-won consensus,' Li Shuo of the Asia Society Policy Institute told AFP.
33% : Trump, who has thrown the full weight of his domestic policy behind fossil fuels, has openly scorned the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, deriding climate science as a 'hoax.' The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 and approved later that year by the US Senate during George HW Bush's presidency.
26% : 'What is the purpose of the United Nations?' asked Trump in a wide-ranging speech, whose litany of complaints extended even to a broken escalator and teleprompter at the UN's New York headquarters.
9% : California Governor Gavin Newsom, an outspoken critic of Trump who is widely seen as a presidential contender, said in a statement 'our brainless president is surrendering America's leadership on the world stage and weakening our ability to compete in the economy of the future -- creating a leadership vacuum that China is already exploiting.' The memo also directs the United States to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body responsible for assessing climate science, alongside other climate-related organisations including the International Renewable Energy Agency, UN Oceans and UN Water.

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